Great British Road Journeys - Buckinghamshire - Buckingham to Wendover Ep. 24
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This week we're off to Buckinghamshire, a place full of oddities... devils in boots, rubber ducks on road sides, Aylesbury...
Using a copy of the 1923 Michelin Guide, I'll be travelling the country to see what remains and what's changed since it's publication. The guide offers suggestions on thing to see and where to stay all with the goal of getting you out there and exploring in your motor vehicle.
**TRW Automotive Aylesbury, full photo collection by Harry Seager** www.flickr.com...
*Why not visit these places*
Buckingham Old Gaol - www.buckingham...
The Bell Inn - thebell-hotel....
St Johns Schorne's Holy Well - www.mkheritage...
Bucks Railway Centre - bucksrailcentr...
Bucks County Council - www.buckingham...
Jon proving once again that he's out standing in his field
By standing in front of a Dungheap.
@@tonys1636 in a field
My priest always warned me that if I pumped and pumped and pumped, the devil would appear.
That sounds almost counterintuitive, although I guess it depends on whether said priest was present for the pumping...
@@simonneep8413 Probably was when he wasn't getting his organ stuck in a hymn.
Another great episode of Rail Shenanigans!
😂😂
Whew! A lucky thing that I just happen to like trains. 🙃
Verney Junction was the most northerly point on the Metropolitan Railway
I can't get enough railway content on this road-oriented series.
Grace Bros !
I'm freeeeee.
My first thoughts as well.
Old Mr Grace doesn't get about much anymore.
I wonder if they actually named the fictional store after the actual store.
Does anyone know?
Not seen young mr grace for a while, must be in another office with his secretary!😊
@@lxtechmangood9503 No, you must be thinking of young Mr Grace. Old Mr Grace is never seen!
If I am not mistaken Verney Junction was the original terminus of the Metropolitan Line, now part of London Underground.
Metropolitan Railway then, one of the last steam hauled underground railways to be taken over when London Underground was formed, never part of UERL, the infamous dodgy American businessman, Charles Tyson Yerkes never got his slippery, greasy fingers on it.
@@tonys1636 Now, we won;t be having any slanderous talk about Charles Tyson Yerkes - without him, Jago Hazzard would be out of a job! #Satire
The first time I visited Wendover was a brief stop at the train station in 1998, before a short, deeply foreboding bus journey to the nearby RAF Halton to start my basic training. I next went back to Wendover ten years later to find it was still 1998.
Fewer pubs now.
I was standing on a corner
In Winslow, Buckinghamshire,
and such a fine sight to see
it's a girl my lord,
in a clapped-out Ford,
slowing down to find a place to pee...
Take It Sleazy - The Beagles.
I was the Project Engineer for the construction of that bridge at Verney Junction (among others!) Nice to see it in you video. I claim no ownership of the drainage I was purely in charge of the structures!
I commented too soon, I also managed the construction of Winslow Station! The Bell Inn was our local and the pies are amazing!
@@kevinbell9255nice to see some proper civil engineers watch this channel!
Lots of railway in this video, I approve 😎
Then he should have mentioned Wendover was a junction of sorts with a freight rail link to the RAF camp at Halton. Just old enough to remember it working.
Nice to know Aylesbury still impresses...
Aylesbury which had the vile MP David Lidington who quelled the news of Asian gang rape attacks on underage girls.
I live... well exist, in Aylesbury.
You actually talked the place up.
No mention on the ducks?
I could not live in Ay for love nor money.
The roadworks are constant and _everywhere._
@@alexg1778 I very rarely go to Aylesbury. Just about the worst place I know of for road lay out. I avoid the place at all costs.
I lived there for a few years, on the Rotherhams estate. I liked it 👍
Now I know why the pub in Winslow on the way to North Marston was called the devil in the boot.
I had to do jury duty in Aylesbury many moons ago. It certainly is a place that exists.
Grace Bros!.... "Are you being served"
Thanks John, very enjoyable
There's always room for a crap pun followed by a "ba-dumm tssssch" rimshot.
Keep up the good work Jon.
Almost £5 for a load of bread. I almost fell off my chair. Definitely not wicked, sweet, awesome. Great vid. Hope your well John. Sunday complete ❤
I laughed my socks off when I heard all the opposition to HS2 from the residents of Wendover. I have a motorway at the end of my road. Now you know what it is like.
I admit - I swore at that, and I'm used to ridiculous gluten free prices
I can't put a finger on it. Something I enjoy about dry *informative humor presented in scene with old bits of stone. Cheers!
Nice one Jon. But Gaol. Gowl...? Surely it's pronounced the same as Jail...???
Seconded. My home town of Abingdon also had an "Old Gaol" (which was a leisure centre in my day, now posh flats) and that was pronounced the same as Jail.
Yup, it's the same word, jail is just the modern spelling.
@@llynellyn More the American misspelling which has made its way back across the Atlantic :(
I think this is his humour guys…
Means something rather different in Ireland. You would rather be inside a gowl than inside a gaol.
My favourite episode because my bus was then one in the background in Aylesbury 😂
Jon's railway fetish is a neat counterpoint to Geoff Marshall's obsession with car parks.
Thanks for another *Quacking* episode, Jon. I think this has been a good week for nearly everybody in the UK. It's pronounced *jail* but you already knew that.
Another abridged introduction.
Gotta love a slab-sided concrete building built in the cold war with a bunker in the basement that'll be flattened with all inside had the canned sunshine ever been dropped cos slab-sided buildings love having extra-strong pressure-waves hitting them... :P
Loved the healing water, not suitable for drinking. This is the closest journey to my location, you have undertaken. I know all the locations you talked about very well, but I still learned some new facts, so thank you John
Another top video. It's the mix of wit and sarcasm that just gets me every time. Addictive viewing, especially when I'm working from home, it's p1ssing it down yet again, the dog is asleep and I've nothing else to do to fill time until my next Teams meeting.
Take take, bye bye.. look forward to the next episode of wit and humour.
Classic episode featuring places nobody goes to nor care about, what more can one ask for? 😂
6:37 for an office block, I quite like it
Probably the best looking New Brutalism structure built, and normally I find them offensive to look at.
I love it
You like it? What is wrong with you! Its a disgusting monstrosity! It looks like a soviet prizon.
Another whicked sweet awesome video 👍
All that lovely concrete at the council HQ , mmm fantastic! HS2: what a total waste of OUR money. The Cameron/ Clegg vanity project, who remembers those two?
Had dinner, had pudding sat down and up popped Auto Shenanigans. Sunday is complete! Safe travels Jon
With the Grace Brothers connection I really think we should've seen you being served at the Bell Inn.
I think he's a bit too young to get the reference, but I'm free!
Remember he is driving.
@@martinh4982 Giving away the age of John's audience - poor chap!
I like this video so I pressed the button specifically for that 👉🏻
I also liked this video, and I also pressed the button specifically for that...
U say it all the time
@@charlottelarimore9261 I certainly try
If he didn't say it, we would wonder what was wrong with him.
This was a particulalry great episode for me. I grew up in the now abandoned pub in Verney Junction so was shocked to see it mentioned
That was a really interesting episode! Love the strangeness of that well!
Nothing happened near these places during the 1st and 2nd disagreements!
Interesting to see the roads have hardly changed and no little chefs!
I’m from Quainton. And I’m disappointed you didn’t visit the windmill. It’s a really interesting piece of history.
Well done on another great video.
Same. I’m also sad that he didn’t talk at all about Waddesdon despite the road map at the start showing that he drove through it
At least the rail centre got a good recommendation - one of our favourite days out (esp the ride on train at VAMES). Shame Wendover got a bit of flak as it's a nice little place with an excellent butchers.
It's almost like the was a small rail based disagreement in the 1960's.
Another Fantastic and informative video Jon, loved the ending 😂
Few things:
Thing the first: yay railways!
Thing the second: Buckinghamshire County Council HQ reminds me of something straight out of East Berlin. It's beautiful 💛❤⚒❤🖤
Thing the third: Yay more railways!
Thing the fourth: BUILD HS2 NOW!
Thing the fifth: I liked this episode so have pressed the button specifically for that.
Thank you for your attention and until next time, good buy
Jon, if I'd known you were in my back yard I'd have put the kettle on.
Very enjoyable episode!
Wickedly interesting 😂😂😂❤
Wendover has some expensive bread, but it’s the cheese that’s really worth getting excited about. That, and the Chiltern Brewery.
Besides my wife you are the only person who asks how I am every time I see you. Cheers for that and keep up the good work. 😆
But just like your wife, he doesn't actually care!🤣
@@2760ade True but it the thought that counts 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I can now have my lunch... wickedsweetawesome.
What’s for lunch?
@@Vtarngpb As it's Winter again we are having Sunday Roast with still warm Cherry and Chocolate cake with cream. Before you ask, the plague of locusts masquerading as my family have eaten the bloody lot.
I think the Jurassic Park music should have been played for the outro whilst stood next to the pile of muck.
Ah yes, Aylesbury - my home town. A lovely market town until razed in the 60's to put up concrete monstrosities - including Pooley's Folly as the County Offices were known.
Good one.
You are compulsive viewing love all your videos lol 😂
Another fwickedsweetawesome video, Jon. The transition at the end made me chuckle 😆
Special healing water you can't drink?! Hmm...🤔
"Let's get back on track" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nice one John. Cheers.
I lived in Wendover for a bit. I was renting, and so I wasn't really a local, which is why I fully consented to HS2. I hated all of the Yuppie NIMBYs around there.
Grace Bros Yeah! 😂
Greetings from a Perth West Aussie 🇦🇺
Love your comments John, especially with reference to Wendover. I can't wait to hear your comments about Maidenhead!
...yes, that brutal telephone exchange, built to survive an atom bomb
Sunday mornings are for auto shenanigans
Perfect timing for my cuppa tea
Winslow used to have a pub called 'The Devil in the Boot' (or similar). Now I know why. Thanks!
6:30 That building looks fantastic. I have always loved 60's and 70's architecture (I think it is called "Brutalist").
Fantastic? What is wrong with you. No it doesn't. It effing horrible. Its called brutalist for a reason. Because its brutal and horrible. It looks like some sort of soviet prizon.
These Videos are getting better each week.
excellent episode
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is great, and was featured in a 1980s Doctor Who serial - "Black Orchid" with Peter Davison.
Brilliant & most accurate. Well done for getting out of Ayleshole whilst you still could: no longer an easy feet given the abysmal lack of main arterial road planning in favor of millions of new houses (and of course .. cars) - another Watford in the making.
Great Vid - really enjoyed the vigorous narrative :D
That county council building is… special!
You spelt disgusting wrong.
I used to travel the A41 a lot back in the last century. Surprised you didn't point out some of the old airfields, one where research *was* being done into some revolutionary new aircraft, or rocket, engine, and the other airfield where ejection seat makers Martin-Baker have a test facility, both visible from the A41.
Martin Baker are based at Chalgrove which isn't anywhere near the A41.... or have they got another place too?
I'm presuming they are referring to Westcott with rocket testing and the old runway.
You used to travel ON the A41...
Grace Brothers? As in "Are you being served?" 🙂
Another good vid John !
Yet again there’s a good bit of railway coverage 🤪👍
The railway to Milton Keynes was operational up to the mid 1980s as I travelled on it on a rail tour in 85
6:23 "We need to get back on track!' Boom. Boom. Tish! LOL
I used to live in Shrivenham in the 90s. I am hoping you will pass by. You have already done the Swindon Magic Roundabout, which is in town. I don't think you have done the Uffington White Horse yet. Nearby, I use to like driving on the B4507 for fun. Hoping the guide book takes you there.
Grew up just outside of Aylesbury and left in the 1980's .... Sorry that you didnt mention the "Blue Leany" an awesome glass structure that has been blinding drivers for decades.... Keep up the good work Jon ...
Was that the owned by the dispicable Equitable Life pension company?
Bugger it John, me and the mrs have missed you 3 times now, the A41(M), Berko (where we're from) and now through Aylesbury (where we live) 😂😂😂
We love your videos, they're fantastic
No, I can't believe somebody's beaten me to sailing a Rubber duck on a flooded section of road. So 10/10 for that. I know 300 mm long ones are produced. That will be noticed far quicker.
10/10 for this one.
Thanks for the video I appreciate the inclusion of Rail shenigans, it is great to see what's there in Buckinghamshire especially all the museums.
"The Ballad of Buckingham Gowl"... just like Oscar Wilde, John, you have nothing to declare, except your genius...😂...and for what it's worth, you can join my club anytime you want...😁👍🇦🇺
One of the railways that terminated at Verney Junction was.... the Metropolitain Railway (the Metropolitain line), before it was cut back to Aylesbury in the mid 1930s. Also Quainton Road was another Metropolitain station. and that the Brill Brnach of the Met, a very rural railway that was for a time a part of the met, branching off at Quainton Road.
"...its Corten steel which looks rusty. Because it is. Its sh" ...yup, couldnt agree more.
am i the only one that loves the council building?
Sameeeee
me too!
No, you're not. Fred Pooley of the county council was an outstanding municipal architect.
Yes you are. Its horrible. Shropshire council offices were also built in the 60s with the same type of nasty concrete and its the ugliest building in Shrewsbury.
@@simontay4851 Three people chime in to say the OP is not alone, and you just deny our existence? This stuff is all subjective. For me the ugliest building in Shrewsbury is Princess House, four storeys of brick and concrete. I'm sure there are uglier buildings in the town, but this one takes up a whole side of The Square.
Shire Hall Shrewsbury may be built of the same kind of concrete as County Buildings Aylesbury, but even looking at photographs I can tell that the Aylesbury offices' concrete is much more carefully finished, and dressed at ground level. Nearly every other twentieth century building in the centre of Aylesbury is far drearier, to my mind.
The original council offices in Aylesbury featured as the crown court building in the 1964 Miss Marple film "Murder Most Foul"
Surely everybody likes trains.
The bridge/area at the start is a 🌈 dogging spot 😂
I don't stop in that car park anymore 😂😂😂
I love how you address this topic with such honesty.
Just a thought and only a thought I can't think of a better host than yourself jon a few videos on the railways 🤔 could be a winner
Travelling to Wendover Productions.
A video featuring Buckinghamshire and "Silverstone" released around the time of the Grand Prix? I see it what you did there John ;).
(Come on Lando!)
I worked there in 2022 as security. I ended up on the pit tour and guarding Nigel Mansells 1992 F1 car
@@antonycharnock2993 very cool. One of the best looking cars in my opinion too. Marlboro era wasn't it? I've been meaning to bimble over to the museum on a random holiday day sometime soon.
I used to marshall at Snetterton, I love the atmosphere surrounding a racing track.
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, as used in Series 8 of Taskmaster.
Seems to pop up in quite a few tv locations. In Morse I seem to remember or was it Endeaver?
Better the devil you can find in a boot than the one you don't! 🤣 lol
Marillion: the best (only?) thing to come out of Aylesbury.
apparently the Buckinghamshire county council office is almost completely empty. And Wendover is lovely, if a bit pointless.
Brilliant video of going through my town Aylesbury!
A very fair review of aylesbury, you covered everything the town has to offer. lol You missed claydon house, which is the family home of the verney family, hence verney junction.
Aylesbury is turning into one massive housing estate
Hey up me duck, on this beautiful drizzly summers day. 😏
I admire your ability to talk really fast and not get out of breath, I think id pass out. Super smashin episode cheers.
Shocked to hear you think Aylesbury is a s**t hole, I live nearby and agree 🙂
The use of COR-TEN weathering steel in the construction of the bridge is interesting. It was first used architecturally in the construction of John Deere’s world headquarters at Moline, Illinois during the 1960’s and its most prominent use in the UK must be The Angel of the North statue thing. Glad you asked.
Corten. The same steel used for shipping containers. It has the ability to generate a thin oxide coating that then protects it from further corrosion.
Another great video John, thanks. We lived a couple of miles from Winslow. Surprised you didn’t visit some of the disused airbases and the Wellington bomber memorial plaque next to the water tower at Mursley the next village along. You’ve pretty much covered everywhere where we live now, Thanet, Buckinghamshire, Darlington area.
"An area..." :) :) :)
I used to shop at Grace Bros frequently.
Well that's another duckup caused by "solving a problem" 😂
Seeing the rubber ducks reminded me of a project that I worked on the hated Cambridge guided busway Story goes that one side of the old railway all the toads lived on one side and on the other side was the breeding pond. No problem for a railway that probably had one train week. Busway comes along now the toads have to climb up the concrete guideway then fall into the track and can't get out. First bus of the day flattens all of them.
Buses don't need to be guided. They can drive on ordinary roads. It should be rail.
@@simontay4851 yes the whole scheme was bonkers. It had to be guided buses to allow to to pass at speed in the width of double track railway. But as maintenance vehicles couldn't access the guided busway they built a 3 metre wide maintenance track the full length of the busway. Why not just build a road far cheaper than laying purpose built reinforced concrete beams. The estimated cost of £80 m came in finally at £160 m.